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HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation

1 hodina 37 min zpět
In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I've been benchmarking the past few weeks. This workstation remains Linux-friendly down to convenient LVFS/Fwupd support and delivers stellar performance with the Zen 5 Threadripper and NVIDIA Blackwell combination.

NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler

1 hodina 55 min zpět
A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs...

DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption

3 hodiny 49 sek zpět
Queued for merging as part of the DeviceMapper changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is the new dm-inlinecrypt target for leveraging inline block device encryption...

Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration

4 hodiny 10 min zpět
The Qt Group released the Qt Creator 20 Beta today for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE). In building off the trends of recent releases of Qt Creator and development tools at large, AI integration continues to be a big area of focus...

OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software

5 hodin 46 min zpět
Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there's finally a new OpenZL software release available...

AMD's Local, Open-Source AI Can Now Easily Interact With Your Gmail

6 hodin 16 sek zpět
AMD software engineers continue rapidly advancing their open-source software efforts around local AI/LLM use on consumer-class Radeon and Ryzen hardware. AMD GAIA 0.17.6 was released on Thursday with more improvements for local AI processing on Windows, Linux, and even macOS. For those trusting enough in local LLM pipelines to do the right thing, there is even integration now for AMD GAIA to interface with your Gmail account...

Linux Erroneously Thinks Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs Run At 7GHz

6 hodin 11 min zpět
With Intel's recently-launched Bartlett Lake P-core-only processors intended for the embedded market, there is a rather surprising oversight under Linux: the Intel P-State driver reporting a 7.0+ GHz clock speed. While many would yearn for a 7GHz CPU, the Core 9 273PE where this issue was discovered in reality can only boost up to 5.7GHz for its maximum turbo frequency...

Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions

16 hodin 4 min zpět
One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated...

AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support

7. Květen 2026 - 22:44
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors...

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet

7. Květen 2026 - 17:03
The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...

AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds

7. Květen 2026 - 16:21
Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems

7. Květen 2026 - 15:26
The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...

AMD Instinct MI350P: PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute

7. Květen 2026 - 14:00
While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.

Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement

7. Květen 2026 - 13:20
Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. The next step is proceeding on the AMD Elan side with beginning to remove the actual driver code...

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering

7. Květen 2026 - 11:29
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...

New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly

7. Květen 2026 - 11:17
When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space. Nearly a decade ago was a proposal for a GCC WebAssembly back-end that ultimately never ended up being merged while now there is a new proposal for a WebAssembly back-end for the GNU toolchain...

SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs

7. Květen 2026 - 11:06
AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units...

Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware

7. Květen 2026 - 1:22
Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...

D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements

7. Květen 2026 - 0:43
D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API...

Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers

6. Květen 2026 - 21:03
Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...